August 2010
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Local conference helps Catholics evangelize online... →
Eek! This one interviewed me! I hope I make sense.
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Faith & Family Live! : New Media Girlfriends →
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Catholic New Media Celebration 2010 | KandLe →
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God s Grace in the Cradle of Liberty | Blogs |... →
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Fathers For Good: Winning the Web for Christ →
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Cardinal Seán's Blog » The annual Vianney... →
Cardinal Seán O’Malley talks about the CNMC on his blog.
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CNMC: Looking Backward And Forward
After such an intense week in another part of the world it is so weird to be back into ‘normal life’. Everybody here is just living like nothing special happened when at the same time I’m running around like a chipmunk on steroids because I’m still very excited about the stuff that went on last week.
It’s hard to get back into ‘normal mode’ for me, because...
Boston hosts gathering of Catholic new media.... →
Cool article on the CNMC.
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Back Home
The flight back home was completely uneventful, just like I hoped for. I fell asleep around 03:00 AM Central European Time, which would be 9:00PM Eastern Time, two hours after departure. I always set my watch to the new time zone as soon as I sit in the plane. I also saw on the monitors that our estimated time of arrival was 7:30 AM Amsterdam time, so I would have very little sleep, if any. I...
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Last Boston Day
On Tuesday we got up early because we wanted to visit the Science Museum in Boston. If you ever visit the Boston area, I recommend visiting this museum, because it’s awesome. First because it has a Naboo Star Fighter suspended at the ceiling and second because it’s very kid friendly and allows them to climb everything and do all kinds of exciting experiments.
After having the leftover...
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Manic Monday?
This was a very relaxed day against all odds. I thought I would be running all over the place, but it wasn’t that bad.. I wanted to go out to downtown Boston early, but it was very hot and humid today. It’s the kind of weather that makes my asthma worse so I decided to just go to Boston Common and look around there in the shade near the water.
Zina had to bring Jeff to his work first,...
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Visiting Catholic TV
At first I didn’t have a real idea on what to do for Mass on Sunday. I got up and went downstairs just to figure out if other people would go to Mass somewhere just to tag along. I saw Steve walking around rounding up people to get on the bus for Catholic TV Mass and a tour of the studios. I signed up last-minute, so the tour to the studios was already full and therefore I didn’t have...
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CNMC: It's A Celebration!
I don’t think it is possible to wrap the whole day in one single blog post. Too much good stuff during the keynotes and the break-out sessions and lots of food for thought. I think I need to ruminate for a while on everything before being able to write about it. Instead, I want to summarize the days as it happened outside those sessions: the get-together of all these great people.
The folks...
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The Day I Went To Hahvahd
It didn’t come as a surprise that I was waking up at an extremely early time. I always do when travelling to the West. Sleeping in a household with little kids means I would have woken up early anyway so I didn’t really bother with it. I took a shower and played with the kids and dog for a bit. I love their dog, Sully, he’s great. I can tell he likes me too.
After breakfast I got...
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Travel Day 2 (continued)
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Travel Day 2
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Waiting For A Miracle
Today it’s August 5 at the end of an extremely long day. I should be exhausted but oddly enough I’m full of energy. It’s running towards midnight and despite the lack of sleep during the past few days I’m wide awake. It must be the adrenaline rush. Let me describe what happened today. What happened today was nothing short of a miracle. I am currently in the United States,...
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Boston: Travel Day 1
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Travel Day
Today was THE day. It’s finally August 4, 2010, a day I’ve been looking forward to because I would travel back to the United States again to meet old and new friends at the CNMC hosted by the Archdiocese of Boston and an initiative of SQPN, the Star Quest Production Network. I didn’t sleep in the night leading to the big travel day because of stress. I’m usually not so much...
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Flickr Photostream for CNMC 2010
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Two Days Or One Day To Go?
The bags are packed, the presents have been bought, time to wind down, clean the apartment a bit — take the trash out! — and then I’ll be off on another great adventure. The fact I’m travelling on stand-by makes this trip more adventurous then it normally would be. I don’t even know if I ever get on a plane to start with.
The question is: how many seats will there be available...
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Three Days To Go, Or Is It Two?
Today was a weird day, because I synced back to the CEST time zone without wanting to. I had to get up very early on Saturday to go to Leyden and got in pretty early because Paul wore me out by walking around town all day. On Sunday I had to go to church earlier to be a coffee lady and today I woke up at 9am all by myself. Drat…
After Mass I spent most of the afternoon frantically...
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Four Days And Counting
Today was exhausting. I got up a bit earlier to spoil myself by baking blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries. Then I had to go to church, not to attend Mass (I attended Vigil Mass yesterday), but to be on coffee duty and play kitchen cop. I had to do the latter because the dishwasher is broken in the cathedral’s kitchen. We use plastic cups for coffee for the time being, but there are...
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July 2010
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Off to Leyden (test run)
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CNMC 2010: Five Days To Go
On Friday I did the last shopping for next Thursday, the day when I leave for the United States. I really think I’m all set now. The upcoming days will be busy enough, therefore I’m glad I’m done. Today, like I explained yesterday, I’m visiting a friend who lives in the beautiful Dutch town of Leyden. It is a tourist destination for many Americans. Besides visiting my...
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Counting Down for the CNMC: Six Days Left
There are those days where nothing goes according to plan. Today was such a day: after a night without sleep for no good reason I felt really sick when I tried to get up at 7:00 AM. My whole stomach felt like it was on fire and so did my back. I immediately realised that there was no way I could go to my 9:00 AM appointment. Therefore I wrote an e-mail to explain that I could not make it and what...
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CNMC 2010 Countdown Has Started
Today it occurred to me it’s only a week from now that I will travel to the United States to attend CNMC MMX in Boston, MA. I also went to last year’s edition, kind of unprepared because I didn’t really know what to expect. This year, I plan to leave much more updates and such, just to look back on later. It probably will be my last CNMC ever since I hope to start a new job early 2011 which ...
A different spin on the city - The Boston Globe →
I might rent a bike and bike around Boston. I think it will make me feel much at home :)